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Snagged Norfolk Southern's Conrail Heritage locomotive this morning. It was drizzly and overcast, but I'm glad to have finally seen it...

This is copied from the Zf reference guide, but I'm sure the Z6III is the same. To enable subject detection during manual focus, select...

Is there a type here? D700 is a full-frame model and the 18-55mm lens is DX. You would be shooting in crop mode 27-78mm equivalent...

7-10: 75 mile drive for work and just could not come up with a more interesting photo shoot stop. Sauk City, WI riverfront. Using Kodak...

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Trying to understand here. You must update firmware to use CFExpress? And you are putting the firmware file on that new CFExpress card...

Also investigate your Z8 picture controls. I think "Charcoal" "Binary" gets you fairly close to being the pen and ink style.

Try inverting to a negative image and it will look like an ink-engraving. I remember doing one of those back in high school art class.

Back in the day before wide public awareness, railfans would often set up organized "photo lines" at prime spots so that everyone could...

A few from my Big Boy experience yesterday in PA, initially frustrated by the crowds as a photographer as the day unfolded I realized...

It was showing its catch for you!

Only thing to impress is this is shot with a nearly 50 year old 500mm mirror lens handheld.

Amtrak's southbound Floridian was running 15 Hours late today, having left its origin at Chicago some 10 Hours late. Getting a lot of...

07-05: A little bored this afternoon, did an almost 50 year old lens challenge. Fixed my 500mm f/8 Reflex lens to the Zf and attempted...